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Has every zombie story been told? Probably. Die-rise-chomp doesn't offer much variation. But there will always be a committed few who approach this popular horror subset with the enthusiasm and insouciance of successful used-car sales folk. Such is the focused, spiky humor and energy with which Australian brothers Kiah and Tristan Roache-Turner infuse "Wyrmwood: Road of the Dead." (Impressively, it's their debut: Kiah directed, both wrote.) The model they're hawking is a lively crossbreed of Peter Jackson-style gore comedy of manners (a la "Dead Alive") and "Mad Max" post-apocalypse machine punk, in which brooding antihero Barry (Jay...

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Has every zombie story been told? Probably. Die-rise-chomp doesn't offer much variation. But there will always be a committed few who approach this popular horror subset with the enthusiasm and insouciance of successful used-car sales folk.
Such is the...

When the music starts, it's just drums and space. A shuffling house beat with an eerie minor-key synth. Then a bigger kick drum locks in place and the arrangements come into focus, topped by a pitch-tweaked vocal, androgynous and eager: "Baby, I'm...

Looks like the Deadheads have turned the slate of final Grateful Dead shows into this year’s golden ticket.
More than a week after the surviving members of the band announced a trio of 50th anniversary shows at Chicago's Soldier Field over the Fourth...

The comedy-horror film is a tricky balancing act.
Pull it off and you've got "Shaun of the Dead," but usually fans of both genres end up leaving the theater unsatisfied.
Richard Bates Jr.'s "Suburban Gothic" misses the mark, but...

Deadheads, prepare for one final pilgrimage.
The surviving members of the stalwart classic-rock band -- Mickey Hart, Phil Lesh, Bill Kreutzmann and Bob Weir -- have booked their final concerts together at Chicago's Soldier Field on July 3, 4 and 5....

"Homeland." I know it's Christmas week, and we'll get to that in a minute, but the "Homeland" finale is this week, and after last week's stunning revelations, it's difficult to think of anything else.
Revelation one:...

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Max Reger’s effusively early 20th century, late Romantic orchestral music is a hard sell in Los Angeles, or at least it is perceived that way, since no one has actually tried to sell it in recent memory.
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Throughout the first night of Hard Day of the Dead at the Pomona Fairplex, a new sound tore through the air. It was the shriek of fans, strapped to a cable 100 feet high, barreling down a zipline over the tens of thousands of ravers below.
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This time, there are not enough candles, not enough wreaths, altars or prayers to recognize the dead.
The dead and the likely dead are all around this small, scruffy city. Clandestine graves dot the hillsides like the wild yellow flowers that blanket...

Día de los Muertos — the Day of the Dead — will be celebrated Saturday and Sunday in Mexico and parts of the U.S., including the Southland, but unlike Halloween, it’s not a fright fest.
“The Mexican … is familiar with death,” wrote...

It's almost like a horror movie: Just when you though the summer concert festival season was finally over, a bony hand reaches from the grave and grabs you for one last sequel.
Hard Day of the Dead wraps up the year's fest glut at the Pomona Fairplex...

Face sweating, heart pounding, Jorge Gutierrez began to deliver the worst pitch of his career.
It was 2012, and the Mexico City-born animator had arrayed skulls, flowers and ornate drawings around the San Fernando Valley backyard of his idol, director...

"The Book of Life" juxtaposes overwrought visual imagery with an undernourished, familiar story — regrettable flaws in one of the few animated films to focus on Latino characters and the rich heritage of Mexican folk culture.
La Muerte...

Last weekend The Times published a profile of the sound artist John Oswald, who has just released an LP version of "Grayfolded." The recording, which is a nearly two-hour sound collage of dozens of live versions of the Grateful Dead's "Dark...

Warning: The Grateful Dead is the focus of this story, so there will certainly be skeptics from the outset. After all, the San Francisco band, with its extended improvised excursions, is as polarizing a group as there ever has been.
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There were swarms of people in tuxedos and cocktail dresses, which meant it was time for Felix Hausfater to start working it.
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Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley of the rock band KISS have long cherished living in aggrieved opposition to critics who they have felt failed to respect Kiss' heavy metal oeuvre, and the band's impending...